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About the Role
We are seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead our identity and access platform team. This role involves setting technical direction for authentication, authorization, and customer/agent identity capabilities, managing and growing the team, and partnering closely with Security and product teams. You will be instrumental in extending our platform's capabilities to AI agents, ensuring they have secure identities and bounded authority.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for Circle’s identity and access platform.
- Manage, coach, and grow a team of backend and frontend engineers.
- Set clear expectations, give direct feedback, and develop senior engineers into technical leaders.
- Hire well to expand the team's capabilities.
- Stay close to the code and systems by leading technical designs.
- Review critical code paths and debug production issues with the team.
- Participate in incident response and build prototypes to drive progress.
- Partner with Security, Product, Onboarding, Risk, and product engineering teams.
- Translate competing requests into a sequenced roadmap, clearly explaining trade-offs.
- Manage the team’s delivery process, including planning, scoping, migrations, cutovers, and rollback plans.
- Provide honest status reporting on team progress.
- Improve the team’s engineering practices and operational readiness.
- Ensure the team provides reliable platform capabilities to the rest of Circle.
Requirements
- At least three years of experience managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management, coaching, and developing senior individual contributors.
- Experience leading a team through a significant migration, re-platforming, or architectural change.
- Substantial hands-on experience building identity, authentication, authorization, or access-control systems at scale.
- Experience designing systems that other teams build upon.
- Ability to explain important trade-offs, migration and adoption strategies, and lessons learned.
- Ability to stay close to production systems, critically read code and designs, and help debug complex issues.
- Experience designing, prototyping, reviewing, or shipping production code recently.
- Experience dealing with real-world Identity, Auth/Authz security problems and adapting designs or operating models.
- Understanding that security monitoring requires more than tracking errors and latency.
- Ability to write usable design documents and explain complex systems plainly.
- Ability to provide direct answers with recommendations to leadership.
Skills
- Identity systems
- Authorization systems
- Authentication
- Access control
- OAuth 2.x
- OIDC
- SAML
- Enterprise SSO
- Session design
- Token design
- API credentials
- Service identity
- Workload identity
- MFA
- Passkeys
- Policy engines
- Entitlement engines
- AI agent identity
- Delegated authorization
- Non-human identity systems
- Agent registration
- Agent lifecycle management
- Delegation chains
- Least privilege
- Token scoping
- Revocation
- Auditability
- Accountability
- Fintech
- Crypto
- Payments
- KYC/KYB
- On-behalf-of token exchange
- MCP authorization
- SPIFFE/SPIRE
- Workload identity federation
- Agent registries
- OPA
- Cedar
- Java
- Kotlin
- TypeScript
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Manager
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $195,000 - $236,667
Benefits
- Flexible work environment
- Inclusive financial future
About the Company
- Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is a leading internet financial platform company building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure.
- Circle's platform includes the world’s largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain.
- Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation.
- Circle is committed to visibility and stability, growing into strong global jurisdictions.
- Speed and efficiency are key motivators for success.
- Company values include: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence.
- Circle fosters a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire.
- Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.
- Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to accommodations@circle.com for support.